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brent: anthony scaramucci against the house of bannon.hat do we know about this communications director anthony scaramucci and why he's such a big problem for sean spicer? correspondent: the cause of the strife within the whitehouse over anthony scaramucci we do not know. he is cut from the same cloth as donald trump. it seems that trump really admired him because a mere two weeks ago anthony scaramucci was the subject of a cnn article alleging he had close ties to agents close to the russian government. anthony scaramucci was a big fundraiser for trial during the campaign -- for trump during the campaign. these allegations of being close to russia were not good for anthony scaramucci. that story into being retracted and this three journalists retired. brent: our washington correspopondent on the story. thank you very much. now to be middle east, palestinian president mahmoud abbas says that the palestinian leadership will freeze contacts with israel on all levels. this as the situation continues to escalate. two israelis have been staffe

anthony scaramucci is coming in. this has been long rumored that this shake up may have in fact happened. it clearly came to a head over the last 18 hours in a remarkable way. given that for six months and one day sean spicer has stood at the podium. sometimes on camera, sometimes off camera. sometimes he's stood else where and defended the president. defended the president's comments on the russia investigation. it's this, anthony scaram kruuc coming in that seems to have been the last straw. i'm hearing noise here. i'm checking in on that. at this point, we do expect, obviously, scaramucci to take on a bigger role. i've heard in the last 45 minutes or so people praising scaramucci for being a fighter. so that is in the words of some sources on them, guys i'm going to toss it back to you for a second. i see movement behind the door. i want to check on what's going on and i'll hop back on the phone as soon as i possibly can. >> hallie jackson, right in the middle of the throng. we can see the cameramen are all ready

anthony scaramucci out as white house communications director. the latest white house staffer to be voted off the island that is the trump white house and it sounds like i'm joking or being facetious. this is the highest office in the land. we're talking about the white house. scaramucci was ousted moments after john kelly was sworn in as white house chief of staff. here's scaramucci actually standing nearby at that event. officially, we're told, he offered to resign but let's make no mistake about it. he was fired. kelly wanted him out. kelly found scaramucci undisciplined after his profanity-laced tirade to a reporter. it was just ten days ago that trump was praising scaramucci saying that he had, quote, great respect for him and calling him a great supporter and, quote, important addition. but then today, this was all the white house had to say about him. >> he does not have a role at this time in the trump administration. >> well, it's shocking in many ways, especially because sanders added at this time whether scaramucci could return to a jo

anthony scaramucci is in that group.he republican infrastructure who is sort of over to president trump after he won, whether that was reince priebus or sean spicer, the ones -- if meghan mccain were here, she was a writer die for the president, having their own people who worked there before who only care about you versus the republican establishment and maybe that's what we're saying now. president trump returning to those people that he knows our 100% behind him. >> harris: i referred to that, that lingo of writer die by saying sometimes people only realize how valuable you are when you park your ride. the president needs somebody he can turn around. what we're talking about and depth here and having people he can say in the shadows and in the open, i know you're with me. >> sandra: one of our frequent #oneluckyguy is has ari fleischer. he's always been complementary of sean spicer, saying it's a tough job and it's one you learn on the job and he said he's been getting better as he goes along, but one thing ari fleisc

would an anthony scaramucci do that? >> my opinion is, yes, he'll do whatever the president will say to him. in order to get that job -- neil: tell the president, mr. president, i think that's a bad idea, you might be off to the races? if it's someone who's going to continue to do crazy stuff like this -- >> no, he won't do that. i don't think he has the cajones to tell donald trump to stop. maybe one guy, someone like mark kasowitz, who's his longtime lawyer -- neil: it's an inknockingous read from an ap article, but spicer spent many years in the republican national committee. he is close to white house chief of staff reince priebus, former rnc chair. i say that only to say that's a read of the background of sean spicer. they go through his background. what they are saying -- >> they're friends. neil: essentially, they're close friends. they both went to the white house together. reince was sort of like his internal corporate man who made everything happen for him. and now they are going separate ways. >> you know -- n

i think that is what he will get with someone like anthony scaramucci. i think they share that same street fighter mentality taking on people. i think from that perspective they will at least share that. the big question for anthony scaramucci is going to be the organizational side of this. can he lay out the messaging, with the messaging is going to look like, president trump also has people like kellyanne conway who have done that throughout their career, working on pull testing messaging, putting on speeches, he has some of those people around him. anthony scaramucci can also help them when they look for a tax reform and helping that. i don't know the answer quite yet. >> jon: no matter which side of the political while you are on, messaging is everything. part of having a successful presidency is reminding people of what you have accomplished. >> that's exactly right, the importance of messaging and being able to get out, that has been a problem for this white house. i think that actually goes -- we were talking about the staffing and the beltway, ta

i've heard that anthony scaramucci would have liked the job himself but john kelly and anthony scaramucci apparently both have said that they think leaks the absolute worst thing that can happen to this administration. so if they can get a handle on that, they'll consider it a success. i don't think they'll get a handle on it. they're both going toward that goal. and he's achieved his goal of trying to get out of the way. when he is on the record and not on the record, what is it his mission is now? clearly communications is streamlining it and making it smooth. >> i'm of that group who doesn't think this is the priority. that anthony scaramucci came in for different reasons. the president really likes him. he sticks in for the president and his family. he is a strong guy to have on the president's side. they don't form the same group on the other side. i don't think this is about communications skill necessarily. anthony scaramucci is a good guest to have on a tv show but he is not particularly expert at it. and remember, i don't know that i or other people believe that anthony scaramucc

jan, go ahead. >> is anthony scaramucci still in the administration? does he have another role besides communications director? can you talk a little about the circumstances of his departure this morning? >> sure. he does not have a role at this time in the trump administration. we put out a statement earlier announcing that, and i don't have much else to add. >> is he at the bank? >> not at this time. >> did the president ask him to leave? did he volunteer his resignation, or how did that come about? >> i'm not getting into the prot process, tick-tock. as i've said before, what matters is not who is employed in the white house but who is employed in the rest of the country. we're devoted to the president's agenda of creating a better economy, creating jobs and that's what we're going to focus on. >> it was a chief of command issue? because scaramucci said he had a direct line of communication to the president. there's been some speculation that general kelly may try to tighten up the number of inputs the president has. was it something about the chain

anthony scaramucci conducted a press conference on camera. we haven't seen one of those since june, but we got one on camera and then sarah huckabee sanders came in and did the normal press secretary on camera, and it sounded a lot like all the other press conferences that we've had nor a long time. let's go to the white house. peter alexander is there for us. peter, what's your take on everything that just happened in the last hour and a half? >> you know, ali, i agree with a lot of things you've heard, obviously. sean spicer was combative. anthony scaramucci is calm, levelheaded and is clearly polished in front of the cameras. but when we talk about the press secretary schang, you talk about communications here, that's the wrapping paper. the real hoish as soon as we get past this sort of turbulent 24 hours is the president and the policies. that's the bottom line of what these guys' responsibility is to sort of represent the are president and his positions and that ultimately is where the challenge lies for this white house p. when people

anthony scaramucci said this himself. these new yorkers don't understand the degree to which washington people rely on the press to sort of move their agenda forward, both personally and policy-wise. and they don't like it. and that's what anthony scaramucci wants to change. >> also, you can't have everybody have a nondisclosure agreement that president trump is used to having in private business. >> i don't think this is just about anthony scaramucci's new to washington. i was sitting on the cnn set as scaramucci's call came in. after about 15 minutes of his rambling dialogue, i started getting e-mails and texts from trump advisers who were aware that this was -- >> they were watching -- >> they were watching the show and freaking out. one of them called and said, this is a car crash. another one said it seems like scaramucci is working through issues with his therapist. another one called me afterward. this is somebody who's very hostile to reince priebus. he said that outburst bought priebus another four months in the

anthony scaramucci has resigned, 11 days later. the timing also happening on day one of the new chief of staff, who had come over from home landlord secure. we remember the story that it will be one of the stories of the year, and the profanity laced language yet four days later, that was when he tendered his recentition nation, we're getting more reporting. let me begin at the white house. caitlyn, we're wait fog a statement from the white house on this resignation. we're told that they are huddled in a office right now. we are told we can expect a statement any minute now. right now we're being told by white house officials that an think scaramucci was removed because john kelly did not think he was disciplined enough and thought he had burned his credibility. as you know, anthony scaramucci went on a vulgar rant against reince priebus, and we're told that played a factor into that, that he didn't think he was disciplined enough to take on this roll. there's been a lot of speculation about john kelly coming into this position, ho

anthony scaramucci is on the hot seat. do things change? he'll be very interested how he appears on tv and what happens with trump's agenda. >> does it actually shake things up? >> can they do a better job controlling the narrative, trying to get ahead of some of the particularly bad russian news, and wouldn't today be a day for the president to make a surprise visit behind the today jum? >> might be a good day for that. >>> coverage continues. big breaking news at the white house with brianna keilar. >>> hello. i'm brianna keilar. wolf blitzer is on assignment. we begin with breaking news. white house officials confirming press secretary sean spicer resigned. this resignation was sudden and sources inside the white house say staffering are shocked by the news. spicer's resignation coming as president trump announces he's hired anthony scaramucci as the new white house communcations director. scaramucci has been a loyal supporter of president trump serving on his campaign as well as his transition team. i want to go straight to the white ho

anthony scaramucci, can you join us? >> yes. when i was speaking to you last night ryan, i said it was unpatriotic that you would president tell me who the leakers were. i was on a plane from new york going to visit my mom. i was teasing you. it was one italian to another, wasn't me trying to get you to say, if you could give me some sense of where they are, because i have a responsibility to the president of the united states -- >> anthony -- >> when you said you didn't, i totally respect your integrity and journalism. >> anthony, i don't know if ryan can hear you. but just in case, it did go out over the air. he heard what you meant when you were talking about him being unpatriotic. let's reset us at zero here. >> i want to reset at zero, but i also want you to know i spent about 15 minutes on the phone talking with the president of the united states who has given me his full support and his full blessing, and i'm going to read you something, chris. bear with me. the president also told me, if you're nice to me in this segment

she spoke about the departure of white house communications director, anthony scaramucci. he said she he does not have a role in the trump administration at this time. at the time treasure secretary stephen mnuchin announced the demonstrations decisions to place financial sanctions on venezuela. this is half an hour. >> don't worry john roberts, you have plenty of time. waiting for you. good afternoon everyone. before we start i like to bring up national security advisor, general hr mcmaster and treasury secretary, stephen mnuchin to discuss administration's response in the recent antidemocratic actions in venezuela. they will each make opening remarks and take your questions on the topic at hand. then as always, your favorite time of day, i will come back up and take your questions. thank you. >> it afternoon everybody. i thought it might be best to read the present statement. since president trumps administration, the ministration has called on venezuela's medora regime to respect venezuela's constitution, respect the role authorities of the constitutional national assem

he had this remarkable conversation with anthony scaramucci. this is astonishing on the record attack. walk us through this amazing conversation you had with anthony scaramucci last night and the fallout, the bitry attack he levelled against reince priebus. >> no secret that anthony scaramucci has been on a campaign against people leaking at the white house. and so last night i reported in frankly a tweet that the president was having dinner with sean hannity and scaramucci and other folks. scaramucci came out of the dinner, saw the report and called me because he wanted to know who told me about the dinner. and he was really upset that the dinner and participants in the dinner leaked. we started with a conversation where he went through a lot of problems he believes he is facing in the white house, problems he believes with reince priebus chief of staff, with people leaking and the conversation started with him really semi aggressively trying to get me to tell him who my sources were. this is extremely important that people don't leak. so that

. >>> a big show here this round goes to anthony scaramucci. he reports directly to the president and reince priebus does not. trump removing priebus and naming a new chief of staff. >>> today, friday, july 28th, 2017 is the day president trump admitted there's something wrong with the trump white house. something is not working and someone is getting canned. reince priebus was the most high ranking, established republican in trump's white house. he was not just fired tonight. he has been attacked, humiliat humiliated, derided and dissed in the most personal terms before now being shown the door. it would be easy to fixate on that treatment but that could ob cure the deeper reasons donald trump is shaking up his white house staff. russia consuming this presidency. congress overriding trump on sanctions. republicans losing that big health care vote early this morning as white house staff spent their time infighting in the lead up to the vote instead of helping out. trump calling john mccain with a last ditch plea and he gave it a thumbs down alo

anthony scaramucci's outburst.ports that trump enjoy anthony scaramucci's outburstlj there were reports that trump enjoy anthony scaramucci's outburst. i got back from the states yesterday and watching this all unfold when you we re over watching this all unfold when you were over there is very different, the 0bamaca re vote were over there is very different, the 0bamacare vote was the massive story, all of this chaos if bafta at the popularity rises popularity is very low across the population but amongst republicans and trump people who actually voted for him is still rock solid which is extraordinary to the rest of the world. you should go over there, lawler, a lot more interesting than the politics here. speaking of which. .. interesting than the politics here. speaking of which... the telegraph says speed of movement will end this the downing street announcement trying to rest... —— freedom of movement. it is silly season, the prime minister is on holiday, philip hammond is technically in charge and apparently

anthony scaramucci is in.retary turning in his resignation as president trump hires new communications chief, a man quite familiar to viewers of this network. is there another shoe about to drop?

scaramucci. now, anthony scaramucci is a very smart guy. harvard law school, trained, made a lot of money on wall street, charismatic on television. but i think sean believes, and he's a friend of mine, so discount for lie of the green, this job requires a great deal more knowledge of how washington, d.c., operates than mr. scaramucci has. so we'll see. but i do believe -- very much reject what dana milbank had to say. >> big surprise there. >> yeah, big shocker. >> you think he'll be on a cable channel in a week? >> yeah, i do. not only has he done a very good job -- a fine job at the rnc, but he knows everyone in washington, d.c., and has the most important thing, which is a score card and phone numbers next to it. and the president will talk to him. the chief of staff will talk to him. the special assistants to the president will talk to him. the cabinet members will talk to him. so as a reporter, i think he's going to be fine. and i do believe -- he just did not want to be number two to an individual who may find the job is more challen

now here we are, ten days into anthony scaramucci, now he's out. it will be interesting to see if this follows two weeks from now. this is, again, john kelly on day one. the white house is saying that, you know, all -- everything's going to funnel through general kelly. at the end of the day, the president is going to be the president. he's his own chief of staff in a way. this all remains very new. >> john harwood, you covered a lot of administrations, the saying tends to be that personnel is policy. because the president -- no president can handle everything. so the people in place make a lot of big policy decisions. i wonder if the obvious corollary to that in the trump white house is that no personnel means sometimes a vacuum of policy. we'll put up on the screen for you, john, all of these people that have gone. scaramucci, comey, of course, had a prior tenure, 110 days only with trump. sean spicer. and reince priebus. at what point does that level of change mean that parts of the jobs aren't getting done? >> well, i think your point is an int

and it's not that anthony scaramucci used bad words. it's that anthony scaramucci showed us all he revealed what's going on there. the snake pit. the leaking. the lack of probity. the lack of rectitude by these people who constantly, constantly since donald trump became president have stood up in front of the podium with the white house seal on it, have serially lied to the american people have prevaricated constantly. and it is not good for america. it's bad. >> full stop right there. we're just hitting pause. we'll have much, much more on all of this on the other side of a very short break. stay with us. it's time to rethink what's possible. rethink the experience. rethink your allergy pills. flonase sensimist allergy relief uses unique mistpro technology and helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pills only block one. and 6 is greater than one. rethink your allergy relief. flonase sensimist. ♪ trust #1 doctor recommended dulcolax. use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. suppositories for

anthony scaramucci set i love the president. multiple times. and then he said the president loves that sarah, he thinks he is a phenomenal job, i agree with him. so now you've got consensus even around the players. it will be interesting to see, it is not so going to be perfect right off the bat, or maybe it won't be going forward, who knows? but it seems like they are on the same page at least out the gates. what do you think? >> yeah, but i want to make one really important point here, that is this. somebody asked the question at one point to near the end, they said it sometimes politicians say they've got a communications problem when what they really have is a policy problem. it barack obama infamous for that when they talked about all the problems of obamacare and they would say what is the trouble? he would say well, i don't think we have done is get enough of a job in communicating the message, that wasn't a problem, the problem was a relative of the original web site didn't work, a lot of the original promises about keep your plan, keep

anthony scaramucci is no shrinking violet. he will go and offer his opinions to the president. sometimes he's going to -- sometimes the president will agree with him. sometimes he won't. but anthony knows who's the president of the united states and who he works for and going back to the commentary about scaramucci just going out on the good days. look, i worked with anthony day in and day out on the campaign just like i did with sean and we had a lot of tough days on our campaign, our winning campaign, i would remind folks and both of those men went out and fought hard every single time. neither one of them shied away from the tough days or the brutal news cycles that we had and anthony's not going to shy away. look, anthony very much, we've seen this from watching cnn, where he sits down and will have very substantive, in depth, policy-oriented conversations with hosts on this network where he can actually sit down and dive into those things and really have a unique way of communicating the president's message, and look, he'

i don't know anthony scaramucci personally. i've met him a couple of times.'ve known a lot of guys like him that talk that way. he's very smart and tough. i think if there was a tape recorder around when politicians hurt me in new york, you hear that type of talk. it can't go on forever but he was angry about something. so listen, if i were on the receiving end of that, i would take a shot back i would try to forget about it the next day. >> this is the lgb tapes talking to a were reporter not on backg even is it wise to say this to a reporter publicly? >> anthony scaramucci is a tough, smart guy. he has his own style of doing things. he's come to the white house with a purpose in mind. we'll see how it works out. this is an unorthodox administration and unorthodox campaign. president trump was elected and he's -- the white house is being run in an unorthodox way. we'll have to see. scaramucci is a tough guy. we'll see how this works out. maybe it will be like a cage match or something. >> and what about for attorney general sessions? i'm wondering where you

you just spoke to anthony scaramucci today. >> yeah, i did. i spoke to him around i guess ten o'clock this morning and i asked him was he going to work under and report to john kelly, and he said he was willing to do that. he would be happy to do that, that he, quote, would do anything for him, him being donald trump, because he loved him and he would do whatever he needed him to do in this role. and then he quickly dungd into that cabinet meeting and said he would talk to me a little bit later this arch. that being said, i mean, you know anthony scaramucci, i know him. i did certainly miss the entire last week of news because i was on vakds, but scaramucci is not somebody as low-key as that conversation i just had with him suggested. >> right. >> he said he was laying low, that he was trying to just keep it cool while the storm passed, essentially. >> right. >> the storm meaning what was happening with him last week, specifically when he was talking to reason lizza of the new yorker where he went on a profanty laced tirade against the people

anthony scaramucci is no stranger to politics. he is donated to figures in both parties and the argument is to be made of that successfully running an $11 billion hedge fund is about to draw upon some of the same attributes, principally salesmanship and managerial prowess, that would be brought to bear in directing day-to-day the presence messaging. as for shaun's advisor, this is a moment or even those who felt poorly served by him, whether you were sitting in the press briefing room where they are looking right now or even if you're sitting in the oval office, everyone should want to wish him well. many of us have known sean for years and worked with him. his ex-boss has long considered himself a past master of manipulating the media and it's very closely attuned to spicer's performance at any given moment. it has to be said that the job of handling communication for chief executive who was always one tweet away from contradicting and cannot be easy. >> melissa: it certainly can't. i want to ask my dream team to stand by and i w

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it was john kelly who accepted anthony scaramucci's resignation. all right. john roberts back with us. john, your take away from this is what? >> i think it's pretty clear that anthony scaramucci sort of cooked his goose, his own goose last week with that interview with the new yorker, that profanity-laced interview in which he thought he was off the record but hadn't laid down any ground rules with the reporter to whom he was speaking. and knowing john kelly as i do and the type of people that kelly has around him and has hired at dhs, that is something that doesn't fly with him. the other issue is this idea that scaramucci was proud to say when he was hired by the president a week ago last friday that he had a district line of communication that there was no one going to stand between himself and the president. it wasn't going through the chief of staff. john kelly said everybody is going through the chief of staff and sarah huckabee sanders confirmed to us a couple minutes ago that everyone including ivanka trump and jared kushner, they all report now to j

scarlet: president trump has decided to remove anthony's era that -- anthony scaramucci comes from ourt his new chief of staff john kelly. julie: saying on twitter that he may get another role, a reporter at the new york times says. is out ofcaramucci the role as communications director but still in the mix. julie: for now. scarlet: for now. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: we want to recap breaking news. president trump has decided to remove anthony scaramucci has his communications director. this is apparently at the request of john kelly. his new chief of staff will begin today after president made the announcement on friday reince previous was -- reince priebus was leaving. more: it makes it difficult to deny the staff is in turmoil at the white house. when you see this kind of turnover. the reason that priebus was leaving was because he was at war with scaramucci. in a twist, scaramucci becomes the latest casualty. scarlet: it's not that scaramucci is out completely at the white house. he has been removed from this particular position. that's bring in kevin who joins us by phone. kev

the new york times is reporting that the president has fired anthony scaramucci, his new director of indications who was only hard ten days ago. the islamic state group has launched an —— on the iraqi embassy on kabul. we will look at the —— and where it leaves america's position in afghanistan. this is venezuela, the fallout from the weekend's election which was to elect a constituent to the assembly. here is the president. with the hurricane example you have set today, more than 8 million votes by the sovereign people of venezuela. we will also talk about apple getting caught up in an argument around censorship in china. it is polled various vpns, facilities that help people get around censorship in china. we will explain that as well. things are moving at speed in washington, dc. in the past hour the white house confirmed anthony scaramucci will leave role as white house communications director to give chief of staff john kelly a "clean slate". bearin bear in mind he hasn't officially started the job. that was slated to happen in august. this was the first we've heard of this stor

anthony scaramucci is now the latest trump team casualty. just hours after president trump tweeted there is no chaos in the white house, scaramucci resigned as communications director, a job he held for just 10 days. sources tell cnn the new white house chief of staff john kelly wanted him out. >>> also a cnn exclusive. sources revealed that kelly was so angry at the way president trump fired fbi director james comey, he told comey he might resign his position at the time as homeland security supervisor. >>> also president trump intends to sign the sanctions bill but won't say when. russian president vladimir putin is already retaliating, exp expelling hundreds of diplomatic staff and planning to consecrate properties. >>> the north korea new ballistics missile was the most successful yet. it went 6,000 miles, putting many american cities at risk. >>> let's go straight for the very latest. this is a bombshell. jim acosta is working the story for us. jim, another major shake-up. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. ne earlier this morning preside

anthony scaramucci is 353 years old. he's known as "the mucc."ed money for mitt romney in 2012 and in 2016 he backed scott walker and then jeb bush before coming over to the trump camp. it might not seem a perfect fit. back in august of 2015, as we've been showing you, scar muamucci called trump a hack politician and anti-american. scaramucci has obviously apologized for that today. but he took some stances which might alarm supporters. in 2012, scaramucci tweeted, the usa has 5% of the world's population but 50% of the world's guns. enough is enough. it is just common sense to apply more controls. he also said many people still believe in climate change. it's a hoax. he finds that disheartening. and trying to fight globalization is counterproductive. >> scaramucci has no formal experience, obviously, in political communications, but my understanding his personal communication skills and the rapport with the president appear to be playing a big role here. what due do you know about th what do you know about that? >> it's not what you know, it's w

spicer out, wall street financier anthony scaramucci is in.id the president wanted him to stay, but he chose to leave. the president tweeted last night, sean spicer is a wonderful person who took tremendous abuse from the fake news media, but his future is bright. spicer was asked on fox news how he felt about the being the butt of "snl" jokes and the focal point of so many contentious briefings. >> the questions and the issues that are of concern to everyday americans are not nearly what they are for the folk, the pack mentality that kpexists here in the briefing room in the white house. >> there were parts that were funny, but there was a lot over the line, that wasn't funny, that were stupid or malicious. but there are some skitz i have seen on late-night television that i had to crack up at. >> let's go now to the white house for the latest on the shake up and jeremy diamond. big moves. we'll wait to see what the ramifications are. >> reporter: that's right. the white house this morning is still reeling from the massive staff shake up that

our friend anthony scaramucci has colorful language.ed from his main message, these lakes have to stop because they are undermining not only the trump administration but the very nate of the republic itself. i firmly believe that he's got something on priebus. >> sean: you do? >> i do. >> sean: i would not be surprised. it's inexplicable, where we are. that could be coming in the next 24 hours. mercedes, here's the problem. you have a president being attacked by the deep state, democrats, the media, weak republicans, trying to do the skinny build that they never ran on -- and of course, never trump-ers and they are fighting with themselves either leaking to the media that hates the president, you can't function in that environment that way. >> no, the environment seems very toxic and it's unfortunate because you have a lot of talent in that white house but they don't seem to trust each other as a team. that's very counterproductive and at the end, rather than each individual group trying to save their reputation, they are forgetting tha

known anthony scaramucci a long time. behind him. this is all good. interesting to see how that actually plays 0 ut in the white house, because the relationship is a little bit more fraught than the white house chief of staff is letting on today, brianna. >> sara murray with the latest there at the white house. you can see looking into that briefing room, an incredibly hectic day with this breaking news. i want to talk about this now with our panel. we're going to discuss this more. we have cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. we have cnn cleef political analyst gloria borger, cnn politics reporter editor at lark chris cillizza and president of the correspondent association jeff mason joining us as well. also we have cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter. everybody, in short, to talk about this. this -- there have been so many times, dana, where there's been speculation about whether sean spicer is going to be fired or whether he's going to resign. this does come as a surprise to us today, but talk of this

>> i think anthony scaramucci is right. for anyone to think you have difference of opinions and ways to do things, it's going to be marshmallows all day every day, it's not true. when you like and respect them, you come together and talk it out. this has been something that the media is fascinated with since the campaign. all the stories on process and people surrounding the president, but i think anthony scaramucci could curb a lot of that as well because he has the personal relationship and able to communicate that. liz: you made a great point about process, there's the focus on d.c. gotcha politics, the process, when the president and his team have been saying it's about policy. the democrats know how to do gotcha politics, right? they're very good at that messaging, the health care reform bill is going to kill people. i'm not saying that's good messaging, it punches through and people say whoa, that could happen? the constant talk about process, how the sausages are made, and the viewer says we're hurting, we want the a

was about relationships between anthony scaramucci as mr kelly?with anthony scaramucci. how do you see that relationship playing out? there is something very machiavellian about anthony scaramucci. well! they will probably has a little bit. anthony scaramucci, one of his requirements was to work directly for trump. the chief of staff is going to want control. i do see them banging heads a little bit, but i think they're both very experienced and they will handle that fine. there was an indication that reince priebus was going to step down from anthony scaramucci, and it has come across as if mr trump is doing anthony scaramucci's bidding. no, i have been hearing that reince priebus went before anthony scaramucci even got there. this is a long time coming, the culmination of several things which i believe was related to the timing of the obama ca re related to the timing of the obama care failure. have been working hard between the administration and leadership of the house and senate to get the obama care repeal done. hejust to get the obama care

anthony scaramucci has been removed as communications director. the u.s.ollar falling under hard times. we look atbetting -- how losses pile up amid political turmoil. the world's most valuable company by market cap reports earnings tomorrow after the bell. investors are looking to pass we guidance and the longer term upside for apple's new iphone. miss? what'd you anthony scaramucci's brief tenure, president trump removed -- let's bring in our white house correspondent. and joining us, congressional .eporter in the d.c. bureau it is the shortest length of time that someone was in role of communications at the white house? nothing is regular in this administration. >> it is certainly high drama. but retired general john kelly's first job on chief of staff, he seems to have decided a little bit of drama on the front-end will save him a lot of drama on the backend. prompting the exit today of mr. scaramucci after an incredibly short and tumultuous time on the job. he could not have made this move without the support of the president himself. was that new yor

after the break, more on the anthony scaramucci storm. x-rated brand that he thought was off the record and his attempt to clarify that. prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. it's looking up, not down.ng fit's being in motion. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. >> and anthony scaramucci's crude tirade raises journalistic questions. and they say he never put the call of the record so he is entitled to publish it. then anthony scaramucci believed that this was off the record and later tweeted i made a mistake and it will not happen again. so the good reporter also a liberal voice, did he burn him? >> i don't know really the details of how the conversation took place. traditionally the way i offer this as a reporter, someone calls me they're not used to doing the parties are not familiar with on the record or off the record. i give people the benefit of the doubt tha

anthony scaramucci's financial form.hen, we find out that the president is replacing reince priebus with general john kelly. host: tell us more about general john kelly. i understand he is the nation's larger -- longest-serving commanders? >> he served in the marines for 40 plus years and has one of the most torrid military general careers. as you and i know, president trump is an them are of military withd emerged -- enamored military officials, he has jim mattis and inside the white house there is h.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser. the job to bek secretary of homeland security and has been there for six months. in contrast to the way the president has spoken about other members of the administration, he has had very positive things to say about john kelly, he is doing a great job, he is a star of the administration, he is working on the president's plan to build a wall on the border between the u.s. and mexico, he is doing a lot of work to try to reduce illegal immigration, and president trump has been very

and even you. >> i thank god for anthony scaramucci, rip it up, anthony, i love it. i love it. it's like manna from heaven. and clean up the leaks, absolutely. so cut to-- cut me off, i'm so fired up this morning and you're doing live from new york. neil, i love you, man. it's great. what happened when i was campaigning with rudy guiliani down in florida and rudy and i took florida for donald trump, we took it, i'll take full credit, thank you very much. neil: rudy who? >> i saw reince was down there, rhein was nice he was and see him on election night at the hilton across the street and he was joe-- nice, nice, into nice, cut to tuesday. then cut to the white house day. neil: that's right. >> and hey, me and morano are down there. it's great and anthony comes around with the shades. i love this guy. neil: scaramucci was there. >> will you jump on the air. he jumps in with me, he is a funny guy. neil: when was this? >> tuesday. and he saidpi pisani-- piscopo, you better not do me on "saturday night live." neil: this was before the-- >> i love the whole thing. and if you have th

the bottom line is anthony scaramucci could be fear him. reince priebus kept him away from that prize for a long time. this isn't just about ambition or what the country needs, this is about what anthony scaramucci had to happen. if you are antony scaramucci, you are probably not all that concern thad john kelly is going to be the chief of staff. your problem was reince priebus. anthony scaramucci is, i don't mean this in a way, this she a chameleon, he learned donald trump's head movements to do very well. so anthony scaramucci will figure et all out. i hard he would have liked that job, himself. the bottom line is john kelly and anthony scaramucci both have said they think leaks are the absolute worst thing that can happen to this administration so if they can get a hand him on that they will consider it a success. i don't think they will get a hand him on it. there are reasons administrations leak. they are both going towards that goal. >> if he achieves his goal of getting his main rival out of the way, other than trying to figure when

that's anthony scaramucci, and that is our top score tonight. it all started last night, when politico published an article in a now deleted tweet he wrote this. "in light of the leaks of i comic my financial disclosure, i will be contacting the fbi." it turns out that the information that was reported was public. it was not leaked. it sent to him quickly backtracking on that and he tweeted this. "wrong! public notice that leakers are helping to end illegal leaks!" and we move forward to what happened this morning. the white house medications director called into cnn to try to clear all of that up. but the interview did little more than throw more gasoline on what turned out to be a pretty raging fire already. listen to this. >> we've had odds, with heads differences. when i said we were brothers from the podium, that's because we are rough on each other. some brothers are like cain and abel. other brothers can fight with each other and then get along. i don't know if this is repairable or not, that will be up to the president. >> martha: all ri

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anthony scaramucci's profane on the record attacks on priebus setting off an absolute firestorm. also thursday, cnn reports that national security advisor h.r. mcmaster is at odds with the president. and that brings us to the early morning hours today. susan collins, lisa murkowski and john mccain think the gop repeal bill spins into chaos again as the president accepts the resignation of reince priebus naming john kelly his new chief-of-staff. that was just in a week. back with our panel to discuss. so much to go over here. april, is there anything typical about this week in washington? >> not at all. not at all. i've been doing this for 20 years and it feels like it's been 20 years just in seven months, almost seven months. but what's really interesting about this, it makes you wonder, is this what the president -- when he was a businessman, how he handled his business? is this how he ruled his empire? how he's ruled his empire is how he's ruling or governing this country and it's chaotic what we know for sure was that there was not cohesion within his staff. what we know is wh

how much of a risky appointment is anthony scaramucci? it is pretty risky.at much communications experience and has never worked in the government. that raises questions as to how he can write this ship. and to how he can write this ship. and to make the president looked better than he has in the past. i was talking to some communications people earlier today. they say no matter who the chief of staff and the key medications director or a press secretary, it doesn't matter, because trump will tweet stuff that will ignite a fire storm. he will fire people, he talks about getting rid of the special prosecutor. it is really changing things on the edges. the president of the president and scaramucci the president of the president and sca ramucci seems to the president of the president and scaramucci seems to want to plan to let the president be the president and not change how he operates. as we have seen in the last six months of the administration, the first six months, the president can get himself in trouble a lot with what he tweets and what he does. that i

anthony scaramucci is not the problem of the white house.not having tax cuts and all this other stuff. this is not, not blame him. he is there a week and got off to really bad start. i will not dismiss that. this is not the core problem. >> these are cosmetic changes. >> the core problem is the president. the president has uneven agenda. tweets stuff that he, he forces -- by the way. lauren: charlie, let me ask you this, do you think general john kelly can control the president and his twitter account? do you that i is possible. >> my dad was a marine, okay? okay, so i have the utmost respect for marines. if anybody can continue donald trump's bad instincts it's a marine but i'm telling you donald trump also once said, you can get the exact quote, that he thought going to military school as a kid was somehow equivalent to the serving in the armed forces. when you make those equivalencies. your guy, when it comes down to it, you might not hold a marine general in such reverence it remains to be seen. if you're telling me scaramucci is the pro